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A ferrofluid is a liquid which becomes strongly polarised in the presence of a magnetic field. It is a colloidal mixture comprising extremely small magnetic particles suspended in a liquid. Ferrofluids are composed of nanoscale ferromagnetic, or ferrimagnetic...
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Robosoft's recently unveiled robot combines advantages of internet and robotics technologies to provide daily-life services to people staying at home, the disabled and the elderly. It allows service providers to customize and offer various services...
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The Visica 2 Treatment System is a premier product for the management and treatment of fibroadenomas. The Visica 2 ICE Probes deliver therapeutic freezing temperatures to targeted tissue to ablate or localize tissue. It is a minimally invasive procedure...
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The aliphatic polycarbonates created by Cornell chemist Geoffrey Coates are safe and strong enough to be used in medical implants and devices. They're also used as extremely effective binders for the creation of non-oxide ceramics, which are often...
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MIRTHE is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center headquartered at Princeton University, with partners City College New York, Johns Hopkins University, Rice, Texas A&M, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The center...
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QC lasers are a rapidly evolving class of high-performamce, mid-infrared, semiconductor light sources. They offer considerable wavelength tunability, high output power, high-speed modulation capabilities and may be fabricated in several different materials...
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A new robotic hand developed by the German Aerospace Institute and the Harbin Institute of Technology uses servo-actuators which are completely integrated into the hand allowing the four fingers, each with three degrees of freedom, to grip with torque...
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Barrett Technologies uses wire cables and brushless motors to produce a high torque and near zero-friction robotic arm that is completely backdrivable. Equipped with a robotic hand that has self-contained motors and processors, the system can be mounted...
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Researchers at the Human Neuromechanics Laboratory, University of Michigan , are studying human locomotion and artificial muscles that have very high power output at a very low weight and are designed for patients with neurological disorders to aid in...
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Using servo motors, magnetic encoders for monitoring and differential force on springs to create torque, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are creating robotic legs that can walk, run, jump; something we don't even think about when we do these...
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A magnetic levitating device could save newborns. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working on very small pumps that could save a life; we'll see how they're doing it in this episode.
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If you wanted to cause an injury to see how to fix it, using people as subjects might be a bit dicey on the ethics front. Brian Davis, Ph.D., of the Cleveland Clinic takes us to the Accident Lab where they tear robotic ACLs.
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With a renewed focus on space exploration comes a serious effort to keep astronauts healthy when in space for extended periods of time. Brian Davis Ph.D., of the Cleveland Clinic is working with NASA to find a way to reach this goal.
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Most engineers are familiar with MEMS, Microelectromechanical Systems , and their common applications in cars, displays, optical switching and pressure sensors. Shuvo Roy, Ph.D., and his team plan to bring this technology to medicine and through a very...
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Using argon lasers and a real time camera, researchers are able to load a sample and then surgically remove samples of interest at the micro level. Judy Drazba, Ph.D., Director of the Imaging Core at the Cleveland Clinic , shows us the system in action...